Brick House Farmhouse

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BRENTWOOD

TQ59NE DODDINGHURST ROAD, Pilgrims Hatch 723-1/5/249 (West side) 20/08/70 Brick House Farmhouse

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House. c1623. Red brick, irregular bond, peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan with internal stack off centre to E. Front door in porch in front and stair tower to rear of stack. Rear wing at NW end. EXTERIOR: 2 storey and attic. S front elevation, 3 bay, 3 window range with facade gables to each bay. At junction of bays 2 and 3 from NW tall stack with 6 diagonally set shafts on base with ovolo moulded cornice. 2-storey porch with gabled roof and semicircular headed doorway with brick torus moulded imposts, door C20 boarded with C17 style ironwork and central grille. House elevation has a brick string course between ground and first floor, continuous round porch. Single window on ground, first floor and attic levels in each bay, all C20 but of C17 style with oak mullions and intermediate minor iron bars. Windows copied from surviving C17 example at E end. Ground and first-floor windows of 4 lights, attic ones of 3 lights. Porch has 3-light window on first floor and a single light window on each side at ground floor. Rear, N elevation, stair tower rises to attic, brick with weatherboarded timber-framing at attic level and simple gabled roof, peg-tiled abutting base of stack shafts. In tower, one blocked 2nd-floor side window and one C20 restored lower mullioned rear window - string course lifts over window. C20 2-light casement window on ground E side in original aperture. Projecting wing at W end rendered with first floor doorway on E side contains C18 stack with tumbled brick shoulders set against rear wall of principal house block. C18 or C19 lean-to additions between stair tower and W wing, having peg-tiled and slated roof. C20 brick addition to rear of W wing, pebble dash rendered with 2-light casement windows and French windows. C20 lean-to at E end of house, peg-tiled, one plain door and one boarded with upper glazed light. W end elevation, gable end of house with wing and extension to N. End gable glazing as on S front with single C20 windows in C17 style on 2 floors and attic. Ground and first floor, 4-lights, attic, 3-lights. Fully glazed conservatory across ground floor. Extension has C20 red brick walling with one C20 3-light casement window, having small leaded rectangular panes, also C20 brick and timber gabled porch with peg and flat tiles, side glazing, each with 4-lights. C20 plain door. C20 extension to N pebble dash rendered and pantiled, one 2-light and 2 single light casement windows, 2 boarded doors and one boarded stable type door. E end elevation, original house gable end with original ground floor 4-light mullioned window, mullions of lozenge section with flattened outer and inner arrises and glazing rebates, minor iron intermediate mullions. First-floor window C20, 4 lights and attic window C20 3 lights, both in early C17 style. String course continuous across face from front elevation. INTERIOR: classic 3-celled lobby entrance form. Principal joists have lamb's tongue stopped chamfers on ground and first floors. Similar treatment in W rear wing. Also 8 original door frames with lamb's tongue chamfer stops that show expected circulation round the house and stair tower. Central fireplaces on ground floor, C20 rebuilt, on first floor blocked, in attic not known within living memory. Stair tower has original newel post and interior upper framing is exposed. Attic roof of butted side purlin and butted rafter type with collars. Stout constructed side purlins of end frames joggled up. The rear wing has 2 bays with central partition and a wind braced side purlin roof. The ground-floor fireplace is rebuilt but has a bread oven. The wing is probably contemporary with house and was possibly a kitchen at the low end, originally timber-framed but now brick walled. The soffit of the arch of the porch has 2 bricks with inscriptions baked into the clay, one is a W, possibly an M for Mary to protect the house from evil and the other is the date 1623. The brick bond is a curious combination of English and Flemish type, an experimental construction characteristic of the date.

Listing NGR: TQ5977596556

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